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But it doesn't matter. With the information Zhu Tong gave us, we rescued Lei Heng from the start and had Kalidus impersonate Lei Heng and infiltrate the prison. He was prepared to pretend to join Liangshan and help interrogate prisoners, thus covering for the whole plan. Anyway, no matter who fails, the person interrogating us will be Kalidus disguised as Lei Heng, so they can be more lenient. If anyone dares to betray us or leak information, they will be executed on the spot.
But unexpectedly, this arrangement brought a pleasant surprise: we discovered that Captain Lei Heng was having an affair with Chao Gai! Damn it, I shouldn't have let her go! But it doesn't matter, once we get back, we'll immediately notify the magistrate of Yuncheng to arrest Captain Lei Heng and throw him in jail! That treacherous spy!
Now, the most crucial part of the war has fallen into the prison cells.
Now, the leader of the entire Liangshan, the Great Sage of Chaos Liu Hong, is in the prison cell, interrogating Iverson, who was captured, together with Kalidusi, who is disguised as Lei Heng. Standing guard at the prison door are the Great Sage of Chaos's two bodyguards: Little Marquis Wen, Lü Fang, and Guo Sheng, the Ren Gui.
Could a Calidus and an Iverson kill the Great Sage Evil before the two bodyguards could react?
Based on the intelligence he had gathered over the past few days, Wennam carefully analyzed and pondered the answer to this question, ultimately discovering that the probability of success was pitifully low. According to the existing intelligence analysis, the fighting power of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was at least on par with that of Wen Da, the Great Swordsman. If the Song Dynasty only valued strength when appointing officials, he could at least have risen to the position of Military Commander of Daming Prefecture. Therefore, he could only regretfully give up—after all, with the disguise and the cover of interrogation by the disguised Kalidus, Iverson would not be able to say anything he shouldn't have.
Now, what I need to do is direct the other three female constables to quickly search for all the intelligence on Liangshan, and while the Commander of the Imperial Guards has assembled the ships and troops, present him with a perfect intelligence report so that he can plan a perfect bandit suppression campaign.
At this moment, Liu Hong watched as "Lei Heng" interrogated Iverson. After a long time of interrogation without getting any information, all he could hear were wails and screams. Frustrated, he went out to do other things.
As for Liangshan, since the government troops weren't in a hurry to invade, they weren't in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with Sun You and Qin Ming's group either. If they were so capable, they could stay here indefinitely. Anyway, Liangshan's natural defenses were there. They had obtained a lot of silver from the two robberies of the birthday tribute, and collected one-tenth of the annual taxes from 100,000 people in the vicinity. The mountain stronghold had plenty of food and fodder, and they weren't afraid of running out of supplies in the short term. Even if I produced a few hundred more fire lances, I could still play around with you.
Therefore, Liu Hong now has only two main tasks: technological upgrading and surprise interrogation.
First of all, the arrival of Chao Gai and his group did indeed greatly improve the technology of Liangshan. These wealthy landowners, who had been the local tyrants for generations, had raised and controlled a large number of craftsmen. Now, they had all joined Liangshan with Chao Gai, allowing Liu Hong to try out two new technological advancements.
One is seamless steel pipe. The Song Dynasty had already been able to smelt steel, so there was no need to teach them. However, the casting process of these people needed improvement. The barrel of the fire lance was the roughest kind, and some even had gaps like bamboo.
If they wanted to forge better and stronger firearms, then these blacksmiths would at least have to forge hollow iron pipes with straight exteriors, symmetrical holes, and thick inner walls—Chao Gai's craftsmen said no problem, just leave it to them, although the requirements were a bit strange, they could do it.
Secondly, there was a rather complex gear-firing device, which truly baffled the craftsmen. They all said they had never seen anything like it before and that it would be too difficult to build.
Liu Hong was also quite helpless. It seemed that blacksmiths at the county and state levels could not make the precision parts for flintlock guns, so they could only use a cruder and simpler method—a lever-fired device and a cotton rope soaked in kerosene. If flintlock guns could not be made, then matchlock guns would be made.
At the same time, the carpenters began to remove the solid wood stock as required, making it easier for the musketeers to shoot from the shoulder. In this way, with a long hollow steel pipe, a solid wood stock, a simple lever firing device, and a cotton rope soaked in kerosene, Liu Hong could upgrade the most primitive and old-fashioned fire musket into a matchlock gun with greater power and an exaggerated range.
Chapter 178: A Mission Within a Mission: Everyone Deceives Each Other
During Liu Hong's absence, Vanus, who was in charge of overall coordination, immediately got excited and transferred the other three assassins to the place where Calidus and Iverson were putting on their act.
The facts have proven that Liu Hong could return to this place at any time. Therefore, we must devise a plan to ambush this prison from all sides. Kalidus will approach in disguise, Vendica will snipe from a distance, and Chusali will counter his demonic attack. Then, Wennam's poison gas will weaken Liu Hong's physical strength. We simply need to wait patiently for the Great Sage of Chaos to return and then assassinate him completely here!
For a time, all the assassins were heading towards the newly arranged cell by "Lei Heng". After assigning tasks to the craftsmen and waiting for them to forge the first matchlock gun and test the power of this new weapon, Liu Hong returned to the cell.
The captured female constable, Iverson, hung upside down from the wooden beam. Nine strands of cowhide rope, soaked in daughter's red wine, tightly gripped her slender ankles, which were wrapped in black silk. She was suspended upside down from the beam like a lamb to the slaughter. The torn black silk, mixed with drops of blood, clung to her bruised and battered skin, making her look even more brutally beautiful. Each whip mark seemed to seal an unspeakable secret with wax.
Lei Heng wielded the long whip with even greater vigor, letting the blood-stained whip climb inch by inch along her taut V-line towards her trembling, snow-white breasts. The two mounds of flesh rippled alluringly in the whip's shadow.
Just then, a small detail caught Liu Hong's attention—when he left, the female constable was already covered in bruises from being whipped. The sexy black stockings that covered her entire body were cracked from being whipped, and beneath each crack, her snow-white skin, covered with characters, was exposed, along with a horrifying scarlet whip mark.
But why are there no more scars after I came back?
"Did she say that?"
Liu Hong looked at the female constable who was hanging upside down and asked Lei Heng, who was in charge of the interrogation, a question.
“The people from the Six Doors have received specialized interrogation training. They have been subjected to much more severe torture and interrogation than this. Once they fail to endure it and start talking, they will be eliminated. Therefore, female constables like these who have already started working are not so easy to talk.”
Lei Heng's beautiful face showed excitement, but also a hint of pride.
"But that's precisely why interrogation is meaningful! To get a female constable from the Six Doors to open her mouth and reveal all her secrets—doesn't that mean my interrogation skills have surpassed those of the Six Doors?! My life has not been in vain!!!"
"Don't kill her, I just want her secret."
"Alright, Great Sage, please stand a little over here. I'm afraid her blood might splatter on you."
Lei Heng grabbed Liu Hong's hand and led him to the side of the cell—this basement was semi-underground, with a small window at the highest point of the wall, through which a sliver of dim moonlight shone through the iron bars into the cell, and Lei Heng led Liu Hong to the spot where the moonlight fell.
Just then, Vendika, who had been lurking outside, concealing herself with invisibility, saw Liu Hong, who was not wearing armor. She abandoned her cone-shaped steel arrows designed to penetrate armor, and instead took out a shovel-shaped poison arrow specifically designed for unarmored targets, capable of inflicting maximum damage. She abruptly pulled the trigger of her crossbow, sending the shovel-headed arrow, designed specifically for killing unarmored targets, whistling as it tore through the sky and shot towards Liu Hong from outside the iron window, attempting to kill him instantly!
"clang!!!"
At this critical moment, suddenly, a patch of dark golden dragon scale rapidly multiplied in Liu Hong's hand. Three thousand black scales surged and writhed like living creatures, layer upon layer weaving into a shadowy-colored infantry battle armor. It suddenly enveloped Liu Hong completely, and the burst of golden lightning first deflected the trajectory of the shovel-headed arrow, slowing its speed. Then, at a distance of less than ten meters, the three thousand black scales withstood the attack!
Vindika and "Lei Heng" immediately changed their expressions. Neither of them expected Liu Hong's reaction speed to be so fast and his ability to be so strange. In an instant, he summoned an indestructible set of black gold dragon scale armor to cover his entire body. The other two assassins who were about to move stopped in their tracks.
They can't be exposed. Assassins and constables aren't for close combat! Their role is to see through all the enemy's information and weaknesses before launching a deadly, one-hit kill. This Great Sage Equaling Heaven's abilities are so strange! What kind of abilities does he possess?! This armor wasn't in the intelligence reports!
As for her teammates, Vendica, she can run away by herself. It's not like Liu Hong could run through such a small window. If she can't even escape, she shouldn't call herself a female constable of the Six Doors.
The two assassins remained motionless. Vendica's crossbow needed reloading. Calidus, disguised as Lei Heng, glanced around and immediately knew that the operation was likely to fail. Therefore, after thinking for a fraction of a second, he unhesitatingly stepped between Liu Hong and Vendica, using his chest as a shield to protect Liu Hong behind him and block Vendica's second arrow. He even shouted loudly, showing his decisiveness in betraying his comrade.
"Assassin! Catch the assassin!!!"
Vendika's expression changed, and she immediately tried to run away. But just as she stood up, she saw a white storm descending from the sky. Lin Chong was already wielding his eighteen-foot spear, charging towards her from afar! Vendika's expression changed again. She threw her crossbow at Lin Chong, hoping to hinder his movements, and then turned and ran!
"Great Sage, it seems there are more assassins. We must be careful."
Lei Heng nervously stood protectively in front of Liu Hong, trying to gain his trust. However, the moment she turned her back to Liu Hong, he suddenly attacked. The Ji Du Ni Lin transformed into a shadow spear, instantly piercing Lei Heng's collarbone from behind, knocking her to the ground! Golden lightning flowed through her flesh, instantly numbing her limbs and bones!
"Great Sage?! I'm on your side!"
Despite the excruciating pain of his collarbone being pierced, Lei Heng looked back in bewilderment and found only mockery and sneer on Liu Hong's face.
"Stop acting, Calidus, I've got you."
Seeing that Liu Hong had exposed his trick, Kalidus not only did not reveal his true colors, but instead pretended to be even more deceptive.
"What Calidus? I don't understand what you're saying!"
"Your disguise was flawless, your plan was without loopholes, but you shouldn't have let Lei Heng go to Zhu Tong after you saved her."
Liu Hong praised Kalidus's disguise skills. At the same time, Gongsun Sheng, the Cloud Dragon, Yang Zhi, the Blue-Faced Beast, and Suo Chao, the Vanguard, rushed into the prison! They had been lying in ambush here for a long time, forcing the other two lurking assassins to flee immediately. The Cloud Dragon roared and immediately used the Five Thunder Orthodox Method, following the two generals to capture the hidden thieves!
At this moment, only Liu Hong, Kalidus, and Iverson remained in the cell.
“In Yuncheng, there was a cavalryman from the local Xiang Army. He was a wealthy farmer, but a rich man coveted his land and falsely accused him, sending him to prison. His face was branded, and he became a convict. He lost all his land, and his wife and daughter were forcibly taken by the rich man as his concubines.”
Liu Hong casually remarked that he should tell "Lei Heng" to stop acting and quickly revert to his true form.
“Last year, I made her protect her bullied daughter and kill that rich man with her own hands. Since then, that cavalryman has always been one of my men.”
Chapter 179: Capturing the Woman and Using Water Torture to Extract a Confession (Bonus Chapter for 2700 Monthly Tickets!)
For a moment, boundless fear almost crushed Nakalidus. These Liangshan bandits were unlike any other rebel army he had ever seen! They had a complete arsenal, a complete industrial chain, a complete mobilization mechanism, and even the rudiments of an intelligence agency. They could even mobilize most of the people of Jeju to provide them with a constant stream of intelligence. After investigating all of this, he felt that Liangshan was extremely terrifying.
Now, Kalidus was astonished to discover that these Liangshan spies had even infiltrated the Xiang Army?! Infiltrated the Yuncheng County government?!
Admittedly, these spies within the local militia were all incredibly clumsy in their skills and had not received any systematic training. They were even poor at keeping secrets. The incident involving the three Ruan brothers scutting the ship was so crudely exposed to an elite like myself that I could see through it at a glance.
However, the enemy's numbers were simply too great. There wasn't a single village in the entire Jizhou that wasn't a supporter of Liangshan. Not a single villager hadn't received Liu Hong's favor. Even many of the former bandit conscripts and soldiers recognized Liu Hong's power, and some even betrayed the Song Dynasty to join Liangshan. The six highly skilled and experienced female constables appeared so small and helpless before the people of Jizhou.
Is this Jeju Island now Zhao Guan's Jeju Island, or Liu Hong's Jeju Island?!
Liu Hong remained silent, pulling out a transforming lasso and binding Kalidus. In an instant, she revealed her true form: her loose white robe transformed into a tight-fitting black silk garment, abruptly contracting and taut over her slender, graceful body, highlighting her full breasts, sexy hips, and long thighs with even more alluring and revealing dark lines. Her fair skin and delicate bones appeared even more seductive and captivating beneath the partially exposed black silk.
The sexy, delicate body that was struggling and writhing on the blue brick floor was held down by Liu Hong, like a fish suffocating on a chopping board. Every struggling movement and every painful groan further stimulated his desire to conquer.
Liu Hong quickly folded Kalidus's fair arms behind her back and tied them tightly with ropes. Then he took out an extra red rope and used a knot meant for binding cattle and slaughtering pigs to bind Kalidus's already slender and delicate ankles, which became even smoother after being wrapped in black silk. He then hung her upside down from the roof beam, just like the assassin Iverson next to her.
After binding the two men tightly, the other Liangshan members returned to report the situation: the poisoner Wennam and the anti-psychic Chusali had escaped. Their appearance and disappearance were as sudden as they appeared, and their stealth techniques were truly too superb. It was indeed too difficult for everyone to capture them without any warning.
Lin Chong, in his demon prince form as a tiger and leopard, carrying a graceful and delicate assassin on his shoulder, returned to the cell laughing and threw the skilled long-range sniper, Wendika, in front of Liu Hong—she had been caught up with by Lin Chong, knocked unconscious, and easily captured alive.
Of the six female constables, half have already been captured. The mission of the Six Doors has been halved, thanks to a commoner's leak, even in the small Liangshan area.
Liu Hong immediately ordered the three Ruan brothers to lead the navy and Lin Chong to lead the cavalry to blockade the port, preventing all ships from leaving, thus trapping the last three female assassins at Liangshan. He then immediately circled Liangshan Marsh to destroy any possible escape routes.
Once all this is done, unless these female constables can fly or swim dozens of miles in one breath, they will have no chance of escaping Liangshan's blockade.
The next task is simple—interrogate these three female constables and force them to tell the truth!
Liu Hong pondered carefully the strange extracurricular knowledge he had acquired. He began a new round of torture, first hanging up the slowly waking Vindika and the tormented Iverson, then personally torturing the chicken, Calidus, using her miserable experience to intimidate the two monkeys, Vindika and Iverson.
Without further ado, Liu Hong lowered Kalidus from the roof beam and laid her graceful and alluring body flat on the table. Her limbs were bound to the four corners of the table with four red ropes, making her look like a delicious meal served on the table.
Then, Liu Hong took out a cloth and covered Kalidus's face, leaving her completely bewildered.
"You little bandit, who do you think we are? You think you can make us submit with just a piece of cloth?!"
Calidus let out a disdainful sneer, but her laughter was short-lived, as Liu Hong took out a pot of water and poured it directly onto Calidus's face without hesitation. Instantly, the wet linen cloth clung to her face, outlining her high, straight nose, alluring lips, and near-perfect facial contours.
Her delicate nasal cavity was instantly filled with moist water droplets. Every breath of air she greedily inhaled was replaced by suffocating dampness!
"Waaah! Mmm, waaah!!!"
Calidus struggled painfully, her delicate wrists and ankles writhing and twisting wildly, but she could not break free of the ropes binding her.
Helpless, she suddenly exerted force with her waist, lifting herself upwards into the air, her entire back arching into a beautiful longbow. She even moved the table by half an inch, but her limbs, tightly bound to the table legs, pulled her back down onto the tabletop, her spine slamming against the table with a series of dull thuds.
Liu Hong quietly watched Kalidus struggle as she suffocated. Thirty seconds later, he suddenly ripped off the wet cloth. The female constable opened her red lips as if granted a pardon, greedily inhaling the air. She then transformed into Lin Chong's cold and beautiful appearance, looking pitifully at Liu Hong, panting heavily.
"Let me go, let me go, brother, why are you torturing your sister like this..."
Liu Hong ignored her and, before the ever-changing Kalidus could finish speaking, placed the wet cloth back on her face and poured the second pot of water.
Before the female constable could catch her breath, she was subjected to such cruel torture. The veins on her slender neck bulged, and her head was repeatedly raised and slammed against the table, producing a series of muffled thuds. Her collarbone, pierced by iron nails, struggled with all her might, drawing blood, but she still could not break free from the two steel nails that pierced her flesh.
Helpless, she once again exerted force with her waist, her well-trained abs springing gracefully like a silver fish out of water, the movement so powerful that it tore open her tight black silk blouse, revealing her fair and beautiful skin and bones. Her nipples, engorged and erect beneath the soaked fabric, had even turned purplish-red. Her hands gripped the table, leaving ten bloody marks, and the iron chains around her ankles suddenly snapped—the last knee-jerk reaction of a suffocating person. Her beautiful legs, encased in black silk, were stained with streaks of water, whether from cold water splashed in or from incontinence.
Seeing that her struggles were weakening, Liu Hong realized she was about to give up. He decisively removed the wet cloth to give her a break. This time, Kalidus transformed into Lu Fang, pitifully begging for mercy.
But Liu Hong didn't wait for her to fully recover. He only let her catch her breath for a moment before covering her with the cloth again. He repeated this nine times, exhausting Kalidus from being full of energy to the point of being on the verge of death, to the point that she didn't even have the energy to transform anymore, before finally stopping the torture.
Chapter 180: The Six Doors Turn the Tide
“You female constables are indeed tenacious, not saying a word even after all this.”
Liu Hong also knew that physical torture was probably useless, so he began to change his strategy.
"Alright, I won't ask you where your other sisters are, how you infiltrated, your mission, or how much intelligence you have—questions you can't answer."
Looking at Kalidus, who had just escaped the suffocating hell, his pale lips panting heavily, and his voluptuous chest heaving, Liu Hong chose to take a step back and try to continue questioning him in a slow and gentle manner.
"I'll ask you some questions you can answer, some that won't violate your professional ethics, how about that? If you agree, then answer; if not, then we'll continue."
Liu Hong pretended to cover Kalidus's face with the cloth again, which frightened the female constable so much that she turned pale and hurriedly spoke.
"No! No, stop lying! As long as it doesn't violate my professional ethics and prevent me from leaking information, you can ask me anything! But, but you can't ask any of those sensitive questions, or I'd rather die!!!"
A faint smile flickered across Liu Hong's face. Although the female constable was still unwilling to say much and would rather die than cooperate, she had already begun to back down due to her survival instinct.
Now, to avoid torture, I'm willing to talk to you about trivial things. In the future, to avoid torture, I'll spill all my secrets!
"I heard that the Six Doors was founded during the reign of the founding emperor and incorporated many foreign cultures, so its names are strange and lack Han Chinese cultural characteristics. Kalidus, Iverson, Vindika... not a single word commonly used by Han Chinese."
Liu Hong removed the wet cloth for the time being.
"But I'm very curious, why do the Six Doors constables of each generation have the exact same abilities? That doesn't make sense, since the abilities of each demon messenger can vary depending on the demon."
"This is a difficult question for me to explain to you, because we are not those ridiculous little devils who need to reside in your body and devour your soul before bestowing upon you some pitiful superpowers."
Calidus chuckled, then thought about it carefully and realized the question didn't seem so serious, so he answered.
"You have never seen a true demon, a true god, so you will never know why the Six Doors are so powerful. Their power is unmatched, even by the demon god of the 800,000 Imperial Guards' instructors."
"Actually, I have seen it."
Liu Hong remained silent, summoning his Jidu scales. Golden lightning crackled across the jet-black dragon scales, terrifying as a nightmare.
"My demonic messenger is the Dragon King of Jidu, is that big enough?"
Upon seeing the dragon scale, Calidus was filled with awe, and his earlier mockery and ridicule transformed into respect.
"I see. Now you should understand why our abilities are so similar."
Calidus tried to slow his voice so he could breathe in more fresh air.
"The founding emperor once fought a fierce battle with six Chaos Demons in the Warp. The seven of them fought for six days and six nights. The aftershocks of the battle shattered a world in the Warp. In the end, the founding emperor captured these six demons using some special method and signed a special contract with them."
"If the previous generation of Calidus dies in battle, the Calidus Gate of the Six Doors will hold a selection to choose a new leader. At the same time, the Great Demon will transfer to the next Calidus. Therefore, the abilities of each generation's leader are exactly the same."
"Not only that, that great demon, like the Dragon King of Jidu, is no longer an ordinary demon. He doesn't need to possess anyone to distribute his blessings, and the other little Kalidus will also receive weakened versions of his abilities, just like me."
Therefore, in your view, although the Six Doors have many people, it's as if there are only six of us. We all call ourselves Callidus, and the other doors also call themselves Vanus, or one of the other four names.
"I see. But Emperor Taizu has been dead for so long, why are these six demons still serving the Zhao family?"
Liu Hong seemed to be deep in thought, then tentatively took out the Panlong Staff and waved it in front of Kalidus, but only received a mocking remark in return.
"Huh? The Great Ancestor's Dragon-Coiling Staff? Where did you find that? It's been lost for almost a hundred years—wait, you don't actually think you can command me with this staff, do you? Are you kidding me! Our demons are bound by a pact with the blood of the Great Ancestor, not with this broken staff!!!"
Kalidus looked at the Panlong Staff with only a moment of surprise, then scoffed at it.
"Okay, I've finished asking my questions. Let's continue."
Liu Hong was somewhat disappointed. Under the fearful gaze of Kalidus, who was already beginning to waver, he covered her face with the rag and began to pour water. In an instant, the jade body bound to the table twisted and struggled once more, accompanied by a seductive moan. She struggled frantically, and under the dim curves of the dungeon, her fleshy body rippled with alluring waves.